Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

between late August and early October 2020. This year, APA has published four reports on consumers’ mental health in the pandemic. The first chart from the report illustrates that by September 2020, most U.S. Stressed Out By COVID and Civil Unrest – the APA’s Stress in America Survey, Part 2, June 2020.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the use of digital health tools and virtual health care; looking past the pandemic, the American Telemedicine Association is envisioning that care will be omni-channel just as other aspects of consumers’ lives are, whether shopping, banking, or now for people in school, education.

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Health Populi

MAY 11, 2020

The analysis quantifies the impact of isolation and loneliness combined with the dramatic economic downturn and mass unemployment with the worsening of mental illness and income inequity on the epidemic of Deaths of Despair. between March and early May 2020. Integrate mental health with health care.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

With this alignment of virtual care supply-and-demand, it is like telehealth will see “permanent usage increases,” according to Parks Associates’ survey report, COVID-19 – Impact on Telehealth Use and Perspectives. One-half of patients accessed a local physician’s practice service in the second quarter of 2020.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

TripleTree expects a “domino effect from virtual health adoption that will drive waves of demand across areas that complement virtual health and address other vulnerabilities exposed by COVID-19,” the report forecasts. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services. In 2019, J.D.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2021

Those percentages were polled as of September 2020, about six months into the now-year+ long pandemic, Peoples’ homes became their safe havens, literally, in the public health crisis, or our “Year of COVID” as Dr. Michael Osterholm of CIDRAP has nicknamed 2020. Similarly, there is a gap between the 37% of U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2023

Healthtech (shifting toward early-stage investment with mental health and primary care dominating the category). The bar chart illustrates SVB’s data for the four healthcare sectors by region and years 2020, 2021 and 2022.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 12, 2021

Spending on connected health monitoring devices in the U.S. the CTA forecast saw a 73% increase in connected health device spending in 2020, and expects 34% growth in 2021. By 2023, connected health monitoring revenue will exceed $1 billion – akin to a blockbuster drug. For the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

Here are Morning Consult’s assessment of the Top 20 fastest-growing consumer brands of 2020 — all of which had everything to do with our pandemic lives. We came to appreciate the connectivity was indeed a determinant of health (which I called out in the Huffington Post in July 2016). healthcare system.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? The top-line in the report, and the bottom-line for health citizens, was that 38% of U.S. That’s the supply side of HLTH.

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Health Populi

MARCH 30, 2021

As a real-world evidence point on telemedicine for mental health, we point to a report from Cigna out last week attesting to the hockey-stick growth of tele-behavioral health at the start of the pandemic and persisting through 2020, shown in the last chart. (An

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

In 2019, Find Care expanded services for consumers to manage chronic health conditions addressing asthma, COPD, and diabetes. Patients can track nutrition and food intake, mood and mental health, financial issues, transportation, and activity (such as steps). “There are people behind those data points.”

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

In Patient Perspectives on Virtual Care , Kyruus answers this question based on an online survey of 1,000 patients 18 years of age and older, conducted in May 2020. Each of these health consumers had at least one virtual care visit between February and May 2020.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2023

Here’s what I wrote about the 2020 FHI , research conducted in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic. That was in the midst of the fast-pivot toward virtual care and telehealth on-ramps welcomed by both clinicians and patients.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 2020. This second graphic diagrams a patient journey map for the coronavirus, across the continuum of care settings from the community and home to primary care, emergency, hospital, and post-acute.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

On February 4 th , 2020, in a hospital in northern California, the first known inpatient diagnosed with COVID-19 died. On March 11 th , the World Health Organization called the growing prevalence of the coronavirus a “pandemic.”. On May 25 th , George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, died at the hands of police in Minneapolis.

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Health Populi

MARCH 31, 2020

households’ changing behaviors for consuming content, stocking the pantry, engaging with social media, and using online health and fitness tools. adults 18 and over in March 2020 — early in the U.S. These become the tech-platforms for people working, living, socializing, and accessing health care virtually at home.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Note the timing of this publication: the authors submitted the manuscript to Nature on 19th March 2020… just eight days after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The “super social” adjective was first coined by Dr.

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care innovations

DECEMBER 12, 2018

That’s according to a number of recent reports focused on telehealth research within a few specific areas of telehealth implementation — one of them focused on primary care and mental health, the other on exploring the application of telehealth and remote care technology within skilled nursing facilities.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Digital health as a category has been a growing feature at CES for over a decade, starting with the early wearable tech era of Fitbit, Nike, Omron and UnderArmour, early exhibitors at CES representing the category.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. I’d seen ATA’s initial statement on the coronavirus published on March 3 2020, so I knew Ann was on this issue. Congressional leadership on February 28 2020.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2023

As timing would have it, this week BrandSpark published its most-trusted health care brands by pharmacists , identifying OMRON’s blood pressure monitors as the top-ranked devices in the category. In the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Launched in December 2020, FOLX Health is an LGBTQIA+ healthcare service provider built to serve the community’s specific needs. FOLX Health provides end-to-end virtual primary care, HRT, PrEP, care navigation, content, and community through a diverse network of queer and trans-specialized providers.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2020

2020 will be remembered for disruption and dislocation on many fronts; among the major blips in the year will be it remembered as the largest funding year for digital health recorded, according to Rock Health’s report on the 3Q2020 digital health funding. based digital health start-ups adding up $9.4

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Which virus is it?”

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

key detractors from good performance on these measures include: Lack of universal access to care for all Americans (the Fund points out that 30 mm people in the U.S. Less adequate primary care “backbone” with large gaps in PCP coverage throughout the United States. bn for on-demand care by July 1st, 2021.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

UPMC launching a social impact program focusing on SDoH, among other projects investing in social factors that bolster public health. As I pointed out in my 2020 Health Populi trendcast , the private sector is taking on more public health initiatives as policy progress at the Federal level feels frozen.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 29, 2023

It is beneficial for conditions that can be effectively managed remotely, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and mental health issues. Virtual healthcare can also be used for follow-up appointments, medication management, and ongoing care. This enhances the precision of diagnoses and the efficacy of treatments.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Financial stressors were a kind of toxic side effect of the pandemic, observed by the spring of 2020 just weeks into the public health crisis. A new article in Nature details the mental health concerns exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, which included economic problems faced by many families.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Campbell County Health is a health system with 1,244 employees across its 90-bed acute care hospital, 160-bed skilled nursing facility, inpatient behavioral health unit, ASC, and 14 outpatient primary care and specialty clinics. Christ Hospital Health Network, with over 3,500 employees, is ranked No.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2020

My focus is all-health, all-the-time, so I’m weaving the connections between connected cars, home appliances, telecoms, and Big Tech who put on the Ritz and glitz today and tomorrow for the press. A fourth reality-check is this eleventh year of Living in Digital Times ’ annual program, the Digital Health Summit.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Expect health care costs and access to be at least as important to U.S. voters through 2019, and on the Presidential debate stages for both Democrats and Republicans leading up to the parties’ nominees for 2020. A key health care cost focus of Congress will target prescription drug costs.

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